From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: gregory.v.rose@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:50:13 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120221.165013.133683072829070307.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329860896.18384.61.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:48:16 +0100
> Thats going to hurt some setups (thousand of devices on a server).
This logic only triggers when the VF attribute is explicitly asked
for.
> Also why are you using _rcu() variant here, we hold rtnl I presume ?
Because that's what I told him to use probably :-) Indeed, I think
we can use the non-RCU variant in this spot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-21 20:47 [PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation Greg Rose
2012-02-21 21:16 ` David Miller
2012-02-21 21:21 ` David Miller
2012-02-21 21:28 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-21 21:32 ` David Miller
2012-02-21 21:33 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-21 21:41 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-21 21:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-21 21:50 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-02-21 21:56 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-21 22:02 ` David Miller
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